Wriging

Just to start things off, I just finished reading Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques. Great book, great series (the Redwall series) actually if you love easy-going fantasy novels.

I'm going to start on Salamandostron by the same author.

I just got done reading Animal Farm.

Next up: 1984.

@ Kamigoroshi:
My brother loves Brian Jacques. He even has the Redwall cookbook. I've read some of the earlier novels, but I tried to read everything in succession and I got burnt out. :P Plus all that talk of food was making me hungry all the time.

I've recently finished April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay. I am starting being his fan after reading Brother Fish, Sylivia, Whitethorns. I think I will dig out his earlier works to read...

Stupid grammatical typo in the title. All fixed now.

Alisa: I'm looking forward to actually buying the Redwall Cookbook as well just for the fun of it. Redwall is too hard to digest in succession. Despite being called a kids book, it's just too much in it. The world is too rich to be just for kids.

I have just finished reading:

The Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland - 7/17/07

Einstein, by Walter Isaacson - Finished 7/15/07

Finished? Uhhh... hmm. I read a lot of magazines and articles on the web, but not many books.

A seminal paper by Francis Quayles titled 'Self-Ascendancy: The Sum of Wot I 'as Read Ain't Equal to My Potential...Innit?'

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The hip-hop sentiment for that title, as per Plug 1 of De La Soul, would be something like "Word G - I'm just an average NGH with above average potential"

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And for all the Latinists amongst us, one could definitely envisage Ovid as saying:
"adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit"

The Economic Naturalist by Cornell Economics Professor Bob Frank. I set out to study economics in college and was tuned off by all the theory and memorization that one was required to do. Professor Frank's book takes a practical approach to economics, using real-life dilemmas. If I'd had him as a professor, I would have earned that Econ degree.

Stumbling on Happiness by Harvard Psychologist Daniel Gilbert. Great book about the Science of Happiness and the thought process that we engage in, especially when attempting to predict how a certain event will affect our happiness in the future.

Comfortable with Uncertainty with Pema Chodron. Not a typical read for me, but recommended by a friend. 108 2-page readings designed to bring about compassion and fearlessness based on bodhichitta, the cultivation of kindness and compassion.

@Alisa: You're about to read my favorite book. :-D

I'm in the midst of reading the Foundation series by Asimov, in addition to. Currently I'm in the middle of "Second Foundation", the third book in the series. I just finished "Foundation and Empire". I'm also currently reading "Cartomancy" by Michael Stackpole, and have been poking around in the amazingly hilarious "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Gnorb: You're a guy after my own heart. :)

Foundation and Good Omens happens to be a few of my favourite books. :)

How Language Works, David Crystal. For the 5th time.

Also, two Linguistics papers titled Pirahã Exceptionality: a Reassessment (March 2007), by Andrew Nevins, David Pestsky, and Cilene Rodrigues, and Cultural Constraints on Grammar in Pirahã: A reply to Nevins, Pesetsky, and Rodrigues (March 2007), by Daniel Everett. (The guy who was initially researching them.)

Everett made a lot of claims about Pirahã grammar, and there have been disputes ever since and these two papers are a result of one of the disputes. Fascinating reading that I've been meaning to get round to for a while now.

(It's so long since I read fiction!)

@Kami: My biggest complaint against Foundation is the same complaint I've had against Asimov's works overall: no such thing as character development in his stories. Still, the guy's works epitomize the genre of Science Fiction by actually putting real people (albeit too perfect and logical a folk, a bit like Ayn Rand's heroes) in real situation. Of course, I feel this was better done in "I, Robot" than in the "Foundation" series, at least from what I see up to now. Alas, if humanity was only that logical... we'd be boring as all hell.

That's what I like about Asimov's work actually. It's true science fiction to say the least. Things are handle in a methodical and rational way and you can see how the paradoxes work out that way. Like you said, this is most obvious in I, Robot and its subsequent Robot series where the loopholes and paradoxes of the 3 laws come to play.

His books help inspire me to work on science. :)

Hello everyone, this is my first post in 9rules.

Interesting question Kamigoroshi. The very last thing i have just finished reading is a book entitled: Rachmaninoff - Life, Works, Recordings by Max Harrison. It is a 2005 first edition and it did get good reviews. I have also found it to be a very thorough account of the subject it treats. No wonder it won its share of awards and recognitions.

Other than that, some rather specific science - related books constantly come in the IN/OUT reading sections of my library!

I just finished The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Thought it was super interesting. The narrative is all over the place, but it has some good messages.

I just finished re-reading all of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett and I'm now up to my eyeballs in the latest William Gibson and am loving it :D

Last week I just finished reading Al Gore's newest book, The Assault on Reason. It's a damn good read for anyone who doesn't like where the USA or our government are heading.

Just finished "Killing Johnny Fry" by Walter Mosley. It's his first foray into erotica...and it sucks. (No, not in the good way, either.)

Deciding on either "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green or one of the other dozen or so books around here I've started and haven't finished.

Invisible Man is one of my favorites; it's messy, confusing, and filled with messages, just like life.

I hate to be a stickler about grammar, but it's Invisible Man, not The Invisible Man. The former is a powerful work by Ralph Ellison, the latter is a forgettable sci-fi short by H.G. Wells (Ahem, my biased opinion, of course).

I just finished The Clockwork Orange, which has also penetrated my list of favorites. Before that, I was reading Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Asimov is great stuff, but I feel his language can be bland sometimes.

Just finished The Good Guy by Dean Koontz. I just started Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.

Recently read:

The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman.

Now reading:

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. 100 pages to go.

Next:

First book of Harry Potter.

"A Thousand Splendid Suns", and reread "Jane Eyre" - assigned by Lorri.

"Whittaker Chambers",

" NOT ON OUR WATCH: THE MISSION TO END GENOCIDE IN DARFUR AND BEYOND" and finally finished "Audacity of Hope".

Kamigoroshi: I've read most of the Redwall books. I haven't read some of the newer, more recent ones, though. I think I've read 13 or 14 of them though.

I'm nearly finished with Catch-22, but I took a break from it and began Homer's Odyssey, which I must finish before it's due back at the library. I'm also looking forward to the next book in the "City of Ember" series, which I have yet to pick up and start reading.

I've tried reading Catch 22, but it just doesn't click. It's one of the few non-school books I've given up reading. I'll try it when I get a little older.

I'm surprised no one here added "I'm in the middle of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows..."

The thing I like about the Redwall series is that you don't have to read them in order. While they all relate to each other, they are self contained in themselves. The perfect light reading.

I just finished "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky. For the second time.

Almost finished with "Breaking Open the Head" by Daniel Pinchbeck

Persepolis by Marijane Satrapi was excellent.

To keep Kami happy, I finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this morning.

Now I have to avoid all conversation with Jo till she's finished it in case I inadvertently let slip the ending...

I'm surprised no one here added "I'm in the middle of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows..."

I finished that last night ( review here :) )

I'm currently halfway through the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, which I actually started last week, but had to put aside for reasons mentioned above.

Before either of those I read the Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum, and think I will be reading something by Tad Williams next

Just finished "Map of Bones" by James Rollins and "Book of the Dead" by Lincoln & Child.

Now I don't know what to read haha

Finished Harry Potter 7 today

I'm not really reading one book but every article from every magazine I've marked as 'important to save' for the past two years. See, I read with a scissors and yellow high lighter. I cut out pictures of design, gardening, crafts etc. and put them in a photo book that has a theme or pattern. OK. It's a little obvious that I'm not at work.

I finished The Last Kingdom last night. Now reading Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone.

I finished reading HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean a couple of days ago. Am reading Freakonomics these days.

Yesterday I finished The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. The book is an elementary but entertaining introduction to Taoism, using the character of Winnie the Pooh

Mmmm...The God Delusion. That was a great book even though he kinda called us Agnostics "cowardly fence sitters". He may be a militant athiest, but Dawkins is still alright in my book.

I have been away the past four days, and finished reading The Measure of a Man, by Syndey Poitier, on the airplane, on the way home.

Ive just finished reading Lee Iacocca, which was sent to me by Gnorb :) I took a while to finish reading a book, which isn't normal, because I've been tied up with a lot of things lately..

But Gnorb, it was a wonderful book, thank you so so much :)

in 14 Days on Kos (greek island) : Harry Potter and the Order Of The Fenix, Harry Potter and the Halfblood Pince, The Twits (Roald Dahl) and over 1200 blog articles and i started Time Shifting, better time management. not too bad now i think of it...

The Secret River
A Fine Balance

Finished a day or two ago: Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Now reading: The Immortal Game by Shenk, The Pale Horseman by Cornwell, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Just finished "Second Foundation (Asimov)"
Finishing "Cartomancy (Stackpole)"
Starting on "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (Wilde)
Will be starting on "Foundation's Edge" (Asimov) just to round out the series.
Will also be starting on "Prey" (Crichton)

But Gnorb, it was a wonderful book, thank you so so much :)

My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

Recently read: The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman.

@Josh: I loved those books.

Just finished George Boolos, Logic, Logic, and Logic and

Steve Awodey, Category Theory

@Jonah: As did I. :)

The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton. Incredible.

I just finished "The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme", by Andrei Makine.

"A Man without a Country", by Kurt Vonnegut

lqz: Did you like the book? I find Vonnegut's work to be excellent, and think he was a master at writing.